Re: desktop enviornment
By: Access Denied to Chris on Sun Aug 11 2013 22:23:14
AD> Heh. You're not being the least bit unfair or biased. It's definitely a
AD> mess. Some people (gnome, Windows, and maybe more) went in a direction
AD> they "assumed" would be popular in the future. Maybe on tablets and
AD> phones, but not on desktops or laptops. My opinion, of course.
I think that's correct. I think the people who created Gnome are following
business trends. Many businesses are faced with a decision on what to bring to
market and have to make bets on what to bring to market based on what people
will buy, and the trend I've seen lately is that many businesses are betting on
tablet-style machines and touch screens, and thus have developed GUIs that
favor that type of user interaction. And understandably, companies that
develop operating systems are developing their operating systems to work on
both desktop and tablet computers rather than developing separate operating
systems for each type of computer. I think Windows 8 and Mac OS X actually do
a decent job of this - Windows 8 still has its desktop mode, and Windows 8.1
will allow you to boot directly into desktop mode if you want. Mac OS X has a
tablet-style interface now, but by default OS X boots into desktop mode, and
you have to switch into the other mode if you want to use it. Gnome, however,
forces you to use a tablet-style interface by default, which I think is a poor
implementation. It's why I now like Mint Linux, with its Cinnamon desktop
environment, which is based on Gnome 2.
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